Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook
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Saved by 76 people (-15 private), first by anonymouse user on 2007-11-11
- Daver230 on 2009-10-26 - Tags Read
- Luvien on 2009-09-25 - Tags Geek , Handbook
- Fsanders on 2009-03-31 - Tags no_tag
- Acemarke on 2009-02-21 - Tags dailylinks , technology
- Mointrigue on 2009-02-09 - Tags assorted geekery , geek , nerd , psychology
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A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.
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It’s clichéd, but a nerd is defined by his computer, and you need to understand why.
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The joy your nerd finds in his project is one of problem solving and discovery. As each part of the project is completed, your nerd receives an adrenaline rush that we’re going to call The High.
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The ability to instantly context switch also comes from a life on the computer. Your nerd’s mental information model for the world is one contained within well-bounded tidy windows where the most important tool is one that allows your nerd to move swiftly from one window to the next. It’s irrelevant that there may be no relationship between these windows. Your nerd is used to making huge contextual leaps where he’s talking to a friend in one window, worrying about his 401k in another, and reading about World War II in yet another.
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Your nerd’s insatiable quest for information and The High has tweaked his brain in an interesting way. For any given piece of incoming information, your nerd is making a lightning fast assessment: relevant or not relevant? Relevance means that the incoming information fits into the system of things your nerd currently cares about. Expect active involvement from your nerd when you trip the relevance flag. If you trip the irrelevance flag, look for verbal punctuation announcing his judgment of irrelevance. It’s the word your nerd says when he’s not listening and it’s always the same.
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First, you need to convince him that you’re going to do your best to recreate his cave in his new surrounding
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People are the most interesting content out there. If you’ve got a seriously shy nerd on your hands, try this: ask him how many folks are in his buddy list? How many friends does he have in Facebook? How many folks are following him on Twitter? LiveJournal? My guess is that, collectively, your nerd interacts with ten times more people than you think he does. He can do this because the interaction is via a system he understands — the computer.
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